Embracing Vulnerability

The Challenges and Implications for Law
Herausgeber: Bedford, Daniel; Herring, Jonathan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vulnerability as generative, and a source of connection and development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781138476929
• ISBN-10: 1138476927
• Artikelnr.: 58770700

Autorenporträt

Dr Daniel Bedford, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Portsmouth. Jonathan Herring, DW Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Vulnerability Refigured
Part 1: Family and Child Law
2. Family Law's Instincts and the Relational Subject
3. Response: Reflections on 'Family Law's Instincts': law's varied Relationship with the vulnerabilities of family law's children
Part 2: Law and Ageing
4. Ageing and Universal Beneficial Vulnerability
5. Response: Reflections on Ageing and the Binaries of Vulnerability
Part 3: Healthcare Law
6. The Idea of Vulnerability in Healthcare Law and Ethics: From the Margins to the Mainstream?
8. Response: Challenging the Frames of Health Care Law
Part 4: Labour Law
9. The Potential and Limitations of the Vulnerability Approach for Labour Law
10. Response: Vulnerability and Labour Law: On the Transition from Theory to Practice
Part 5: Human Rights Law
11. Embracing Vulnerability: Towards Human Rights for a More-Than-Human World
12. Response: On Some Problems with Rights